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Dial possibly made by Walter F Cave, who designed the Jubilee garden (Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee) and orangery. Motto on dial plate: ‘Let others tell of storms and showers, I’ll only count your sunny hours’.
Numerals read from inside and are lined up with the hour lines with noon marked as XII and 4pm as IIII. No noon gap, despite 15mm thick gnomon. Looks as if engraved using a rotating table, but some of the spacing of the 5 minute marks appears irregular. Compass points shown.
Octagonal stone plinth 2108 as found in the Jubilee Garden. Inscription on the plinth reads: ‘.I.AM.A.SHADE.A.SHADOW.TOO.ART.THOU . I.MARK.THE.TIME . SAY.GOSSIP.DOST.THOU.SO?’ [from a verse by Henry Austin Dobson ]. ‘V.R. .60’, (with crown emblem). The carved lettering uses the same character set found on architectural drawings by W F Cave.
In 2010 the dial was surrounded with rough protective fencing, which was still in place in 2014!
